Here was my answer to that continually said dumb comment that 'wrestling is the best base'.

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honestly that is just some a dumb and tiring statement.

Did Chad Mendez control where the fight went against Aldo?

The best fighter controls where the fight goes, period. Sometimes that is a wrestler and sometime it is not.

Now before you try and point out examples and say Aldo is a rarity, swing yourself over to the thread naming all the Olympians in this sport. Realize how many more top level wrestlers there are in this sport then any other discipline and understand that is why wrestlers have traditional had such standing in this sport. MMA is drawing more of the best of the best wrestlers and many from BJJ now too, but none of the best strikers.

If and when top strikers come into this sport in similar numbers you will find the proportions sway quite a bit, and until then no one can say wrestling is best.

The best fighter controls where the fight goes, period. Sometimes that is a wrestler and sometime it is not.

Now before you try and point out examples and say Aldo is a rarity, swing yourself over to the thread naming all the Olympians in this sport. Realize how many more top level wrestlers there are in this sport then any other discipline and understand that is why wrestlers have traditional had such standing in this sport. MMA is drawing more of the best of the best wrestlers and many from BJJ now too, but none of the best strikers.

If and when top strikers come into this sport in similar numbers you will find the proportions sway quite a bit, and until then no one can say wrestling is best.

I think this is right. Striking is very poor in the UFC. Even Silva and Aldo would not necessarily be considered world class strikers.

The way i look at it is that BJJ and TDD are table stakes now. You have to have some knowledge of those two things to stay alive. Offensively you then need takedowns or striking. The guys who know the takedowns inherently are better defensively. The strikers have much more to learn. But take a decent striker (by boxing or muay thai standards) and give them solid defense and they become extremely tough to beat. I think the last big leap in MMA will be the rise of striking. More and more high school martial artists and wrestlers are training MMA. This should give them much better striking by the time they turn pro. And hopefully we might finally see some muay thai guys give mma a go.

Not true at all. I am a wrestler myself and have shot on concrete plenty of times. It literally will do nothing to your knee of the concrete is smooth other than very minor bruising. If it is rough u can scrape your knee. I have a video on YouTube if you really don't believe me